APPENDIX 3
by Francine Nicholson and Kent Jewell
The following recommendations are designed to lead you through other reading after you complete this book. Note that the list includes only books currently in print and reasonably priced (under $85US). There are three main categories-Introductory, Intermediate, and Special Topics-with subtopics in each category.
Introductory Level
General
Barry Cunliffe, The Ancient Celts, 2000, Penguin USA (Paper); ISBN 0140254226
Miranda Green, World of the Druids, 1997, Thames & Hudson; ISBN 050005083X
Christiane Eluere, Celts: Conquerors of Ancient Europe, 1993, Harry N. Abrams, ISBN 0810928523
John Haywood, Atlas of the Celtic World, 2001, Thames and Hudson, ISBN 0500051097
Simon James, World of the Celts, 1993, Thames & Hudson; ISBN 0500050678
James MacKillop, Dictionary of Celtic Mythology, 2000, Oxford University Press; ISBN 0192801201
Bernhard Maier, Dictionary of Celtic Religion and Culture, 1998, Boydell and Brewer, ISBN 0851156606
Ruth Megaw, Vincent Megaw, Celtic Art: From Its Beginnings to the Book of Kells, 2001, Thames & Hudson; ISBN 050028265X
Sabatino Moscati, editor, The Celts, 2000, Rizzoli; ISBN 0847821935
Robert O'Driscoll, editor, Celtic Consciousness, 1982, George Brazillier, ISBN 0807611360
Stuart Piggott, The Druids, reprint, 1999, Thames and Hudson; ISBN 0500273634
David Rankin, Celts and the Classical World, 1996, Routledge; ISBN 0415150906
Anne Ross, Pagan Celtic Britain, 1997, Academy Chicago Pub; ISBN 0897334353
Shan Winn, Heaven, Heroes, and Happiness: The Indo-European Roots of Western Ideology, 2001, University Press of America; ISBN 0819198609
Mythology, Literature, and Pre-Christian Religion
Texts
Ann Dooley and Harry Roe, eds. Tales of the Elders of Ireland: A New Translation of Acallam na Senorach, 1999, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0192839187
Patrick K. Ford, editor and translator, The Mabinogi and Other Medieval Welsh Tales, 1983, University of California Press; ISBN 0520034147
Jeffrey Gantz, editor and translator, Early Irish Myths and Sagas (Penguin Classics), 1982, Penguin USA; ISBN 0140443975
Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson, editor and translator, A Celtic Miscellany: Translations from the Celtic Literatures, 1972, Viking Press; ISBN 0140442472
Thomas Kinsella, trans., The Táin: Translated from the Irish Epic Táin Bo Cualnge 1983, Oxford University Press; ISBN 0192810901
John Koch, editor, in collaboration with John Carey, Celtic Heroic Age: Literary Sources for Ancient Celtic Europe and Early Ireland and Wales, 2000, Celtic Studies Pubns Inc; ISBN 1891271040
Gerard Murphy, Early Irish Lyrics: 8th-12th Century, 1999, Four Courts Press Ltd; ISBN 1851821988
Commentary and Analysis
Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson, Gods and Myths of Northern Europe, 1990, Viking Press; ISBN 0140136274
H. R. Ellis Davidson, Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe: Early Scandinavian and Celtic Religions (December 1989) Syracuse University Press; ISBN 0815624417
Angelique Gulermovich Epstein, War Goddess: The Morrigan and her Germano-Celtic Counterparts, online dissertation at: http://modigliana.brandx.net/user/aeron/diss/
Robin Flower Irish Tradition, 1994 (reprint of 1946 ed.), Dufour Editions, ISBN 1874675317
Patrick K. Ford, translator, The Celtic Poets: Songs and Tales from Early Ireland and Wales, 1999, Ford & Bailie Pub; ISBN 0926689053
Miranda Green, Celtic Myths: the Legendary Past, 1994, University of Texas Press; ISBN 0292727542
Miranda Green, The Gods of the Celts, 1997, Sutton Publishing; ISBN 0750915811
Miranda Green, Celtic Goddesses: Warriors, Virgins, and Mothers, 1996, George Braziller; ISBN 080761405X
A.T.E. Matonis and Daniel F. Melia, editors, Celtic Language, Celtic Culture: A Festschrift for Eric P. Hamp, 1990, Ford and Bailie Publishers, ISBN 0926689010
Thomas F. O'Rahilly, Early Irish History and Mythology, 1984 (reprint of 1946 text), Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, ISBN 0901282294
Huw Pryce, editor, Literacy in Medieval Celtic Societies, 1998, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 1521570395
Alwyn D. Rees, Brinley Rees, Celtic Heritage: Ancient Tradition in Ireland and Wales, 1989, Thames & Hudson; ISBN 0500270392
Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Celtic Gods and Heroes, translated by Myles Dillon, Dover Pubns, 2000; ISBN 0486414418 (formerly publihsed as Gods and Heroes of the Celts by various publishers)
Folklore and Folk Remains
All Celtic Areas
Walter Y. Evans-Wentz, Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries, 1990, Citadel Press; ISBN 0806511605
Irish
Bo Almqvist, Seamas O Cathain, and Padraig O Healai, editors, Heroic Process: Form, Function and Fantasy in Folk Epic, 1987, Glendale Press, ISBN 0907606458
Jeremiah Curtin, Irish Tales of the Fairies and the Ghost World [UNABRIDGED], 2000, Dover Pubns; ISBN 0486411397
Kevin Danaher, In Ireland Long Ago, 1997, Irish Amer Book Co; ISBN 085342781X
Kevin Danaher, The Year in Ireland, 2001, Mercier Press Ltd; ISBN 1856350932
Kevin Danaher, Folktales of the Irish Countryside, 1998, Irish Books & Media; ISBN 0853428492
Henry H. Glassie, Passing the Time in Ballymenone: Culture and History of an Ulster Community, 1995, Indiana University Press; ISBN 0253209870
Henry H. Glassie, editor, Claudine O'Hearn, editor, Irish Folk Tales (Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library), 1997, Pantheon Books; ISBN 0679774122
Isabella Augusta Gregory, Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland, 1995, Smythe, Colin Limited; ISBN 0901072362
Scottish
Mary Beith, Healing Threads, 1997, Polygon; ISBN 0748661999
A.J. Bruford and D. A. MacDonald, editors, Scottish Traditional Tales, 1994, Subterrane; ISBN 0748661506
J. F. Campbell, D. MacLean, H. J. Rose, W. J. Watson, editors; John G. MacKay, translator, More West Highland Tales, Volume 1 1998, Birlinn Limited; ISBN 187474422X
Alexander Carmichael, Carmina Gadelica, 1992, Lindisfarne Books; ISBN 0940262509
I.F. Grant, Highland Folk Ways, 1998, Birlinn, Limited; ISBN 1874744424
Angus MacLellan, trans. by John Lorne Campbell, Stories from South Uist, 1998, Birlinn, Limited; ISBN 1874744262
Anne Ross, Folklore of the Scottish Highlands, 2000, Arcadia; ISBN 0752419048
Margaret Fay Shaw, Folksongs and Folklore of South Uist, 1999, Birlinn Ltd; ISBN 1841580082
Derick S. Thomson, An Introduction to Gaelic Poetry, 1990, Edinburgh University Press; ISBN 0748601279
Welsh
Trefor Owen, Welsh Folk Customs, 1987, Gomer Press; ISBN 0863833470
Intermediate Level
Celtic Society and Law
Bettina Arnold and D. Blair Gibson, Celtic Chiefdom, Celtic State: The Evolutuion of Complex Social Systems in Prehistoric Europe (New Directions in Archaeology), 1999, Cambridge University Press; ISBN 0521585791
Miranda Green, ed., The Celtic World, 1996, Routledge; ISBN 0415146275
Michael Hechter, Internal Colonialsim: The Celtic Fringe in British National Development, 1536-1966, (reprint edition) 1998, Transaction Pub; ISBN 0765804751
Benjamin T. Hudson, Prophecy of Berchan: Irish and Scottish High-Kings of the Early Middle Ages, 1996, Greenwood Publishing Group; ISBN 0313295670
Fergus Kelly, A Guide to Early Irish Law, 1988, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies; ISBN 0901282952
Fergus Kelly, Early Irish Farming: a study based mainly on the law-texts of the 7th and 8th centuries AD, School of Celtic Studies, 1998, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies; ISBN 1855001802
J. P. Mallory, In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology, and Myth, 1991, Thames & Hudson; ISBN 0500276161
Pre-Christian Celtic Religion
Sandra Billington (Editor), Miranda Green (Editor), The Concept of the Goddess, 1999, Routledge; ISBN 0415197899
Walter L., Jr. Brenneman, Mary G. Brenneman, Crossing the Circle at the Holy Wells of Ireland, 1995, University Press of Virginia; ISBN 0813915481
Miriam Robbins Dexter, Whence the Goddesses: A Source Book, 1990, Teachers College Press; ISBN 0807762342
Francis Jones, The Holy Wells of Wales, reprint edition, 1998, Books Britain, ISBN 0708311458
Bruce Lincoln, Death, War, and Sacrifice: Studies in Ideology and Practice, 1991, University of Chicago Press; ISBN 0226482006
Patrick Logan, The Holy Wells of Ireland, 1999, Colin Smythe Ltd; ISBN 0861400461
Celtic Mythology and Literature: Commentary and Analysis
James Carney, editor, Medieval Irish Lyrics selected and translated with the Irish Bardic Poet: A Study in the Relationship of Poet and Patron, 1999, Dolmen Press; ISBN 0851053602
Leslie Ellen Jones, Druid, Shaman, Saint: Metaphors of Celtic Paagnism, 1998, Hisarlik Press; ISBN 1874312273
Joseph Falaky Nagy, Conversing with Angels and Ancients, 1997, Cornell University Press; ISBN 0801483689
Joseph Falaky Nagy, Handbook of Celtic Mythology 2002, ABC-CLIO; ISBN 1576072274
Maria Tymoczko, The Irish Ulysses, 1997, University of California Press; ISBN 0520209060
Calvert Watkins, How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics, 2001, Oxford University Press; ISBN 0195144139
J. E. Caerwyn Williams, Patrick K. Ford, translator, The Irish Literary Tradition, 1992, Ford & Bailie Pub; ISBN 0926689037
Special Topics
Breton Social and Cultural History
Patrick Galliou and Michael Jones, The Bretons, 1996, Blackwell Publishers; ISBN 063120105X
Pierre Jakez Helias, The Horse of Pride: Life in a Breton Village, 1980, Yale University Press; ISBN 0300025998
Irish Culture and History
General History
Tony Crowley, Politics of Language in Ireland, 1366-1922: A Sourcebook, 2000, Routledge, ISBN 0415157188
R.F. Foster, editor, The Oxford History of Ireland Reissue edition, 2001, Oxford University Press; ISBN 019280202X
Philip Freeman, Ireland and the Classical World, 2000, University of Texas Pessr; ISBN: 0292725183
Prehistory
Peter Harbison, Pre-Christian Ireland: From the First Settlers to the Early Celts (Ancient Peoples and Places) Reprint edition,1995, Thames & Hudson; ISBN 0500278091
Barry Raftery, Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age, 1998, Thames & Hudson; ISBN 0500279837
Medieval
Thomas Bartlett, editor, Keith Jeffery, editor, A Military History of Ireland, 1997, Cambridge University Press; ISBN 0521629896
Lisa M. Bitel, Land of Women Tales of Sex and Gender from Early Ireland, 1998, Cornell University Press; ISBN 0801485444
F.J. Byrne, Irish Kings and High-Kings, 2001, International Specialized Book Service; ISBN 1851821961
Doris Edel, editor, Cultural Identity and Cultural Integration: Ireland and Europe in the Early Middle Ages, 1995, Four Courts Press, ISBN 1851821678
Daibhi O Croinin, Early Medieval Ireland: 400-1200, 1995, Addison-Wesley Pub Co; ISBN 0582015650
Nerys Thomas Patterson, Cattle Lords and Clansmen: The Social Structure of Early Ireland, 1994, University of Notre Dame Press; ISBN 0268008000
Michael Richter, Medieval Ireland: The Enduring Tradition, 1996, Palgrave; ISBN 0312158122
Katharine Simms, From Kings to Warlords: The Changing Political Structure of Gaelic Ireland in the Later Middle Ages (Studies in Celtic History 7), 2000, Boydell & Brewer; ISBN 085115784X
Modern
John Ardagh, Ireland and the Irish: Portrait of a Changing Society Reprint edition, 1997, Penguin USA; ISBN 0140171606
Jonathan Bardon, A History of Ulster, 1993, Dufour Editions; ISBN 0856404764
John Conroy, Belfast Diary: War As a Way of Life, 1995, Beacon Press; ISBN 0807002178
R. F. Foster, Modern Ireland, 1600-1972, 1993, Penguin USA; ISBN 0140132503
Christine Kinealy, The Great Calamity: The Irish Famine 1845-52, 1997, Roberts Rinehart Publishers; ISBN 157098140X
J. J. Lee, Ireland, 1912-1985: Politics and Society (March 1990) Cambridge University Press; ISBN 0521377412
Cecil Woodham-Smith, The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-9, 1995, Penguin USA; ISBN 014014515X
Irish Social Customs and Folklore
Patrick Logan, Jim O'Callahgan, illustrator, The Holy Wells of Ireland, 1999, Colin Smythe Ltd; ISBN 0861400461
Patrick Logan, Irish Folk Medicine, 2001, Appletree Press; ISBN 0862817676
Patricia Lysaght, The Banshee: The Irish Death Messenger, Reissue edition, 1997, Roberts Rinehart Publisher; ISBN 1570981388
Peter Narvaez, The Good People: New Fairylore Essays, Reprint edition, 1997, University Press of Kentucky; ISBN 0813109396
Sean O Suilleabhain, Irish Wake Amusements, 1999, Irish American Book Co; ISBN 1856351734
Maurice O'Sullivan, Moya L. Davies, translator, George Thomson, translator, Twenty Years A-Growing, (first published in 1933), 1998, J S Sanders & Co; ISBN 1879941392
Lady Wilde, Irish Cures, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions, 1991, Sterling Publishing; ISBN 0806982004
Sir William Wilde, Irish Popular Superstitions (December 1995) Sterling Publishing; ISBN 0806906499
Scottish History, Language, and Culture
T.M. Devine, Clanship to Crofters War: The Social Transformation of the Scottish Highlands, 1994, Manchester University. Press; ISBN 0719034825
John Donald William Gillies, ed., Gaelic and Scotland: Alba Agus a'Ghaidhlig, 1989, Edinburgh University Press; ISBN 0852246269I
F. Grant and Hugh Cheape, Periods in Highland History, Revised edition,1988, Shepheard-Walwyn Ltd; ISBN 0856830577
James Hunter, Making of the Crofting Community, New edition, 2000, John Donald/Birlinn; ISBN 0859765377
James Hunter, The Scottish Highlanders: A People and their Place, 1992, Mainstream Pub Co Ltd; ISBN 1851584439
Lloyd Laing, Jenny Laing, The Picts and the Scots, 2002, Sutton Publishing; ISBN 0750928735
John Marsden, Alba of the Ravens: In Search of the Celtic Kingdom of the Scots, 1997, Constable, ISBN 0094774307
R. Andrew McDonald, Kingdom of the Isles: Scotland's Western Seaboard, c. 1100-c. 1336, 1997, Tuckwell, ISBN 1898410852
Michael Newton, Handbook of the Scottish Gaelic World, 2000, Four Courts Press, ISBN 185182541X
Alexander Nicolson, editor, Gaelic Proverbs, 1996 (reprint of 1882 text), Birlinn, ISBN 1874744149
Eric Richards, The Highland Clearances: People, Landlords, and Rural Turmoil, 2000, Birlinn Ltd; ISBN 1841580406
John L. Roberts, Lost Kingdoms: Celtic Scotland and the Middle Ages, 1997, Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 0748609105
Marion Sinclair and Michael Newton, Hebridean Odyssey, 1996, Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 0748661972
Welsh History, Language, and Culture
Welsh History and Culture
John Davies, A History of Wales, Reprint edition, 1995, Penguin USA (Paper); ISBN 0140145818
Wendy Davies, Paul Fouracre, editors, Property and Power in the Early Middle Ages, 1995, Cambridge University Press; ISBN 052143419)
Welsh Language & Literature
Janet Davies, The Welsh Language: A Pocket Guide, 1999, University of Wales Press; ISBN 070831516X
Meic Stephens, ed., The New Companion to the Literature of Wales, 1999, University of Wales Press, ISBN 0708313833
Celtic Christianity
Lisa M. Bitel, Isle of the Saints: Monastic Settlement and Christian Community in Early Ireland (January 1994) Cornell University Press; ISBN 0801481570
Oliver Davies, editor, Thomas O'Loughlin, editor, Celtic Spirituality (Classics of Western Spirituality), 2000, Paulist Press; ISBN 0809138948
Peter Harbison, Pilgrimage in Ireland: The Monuments and the People, 1995, Syracuse University Press; ISBN 0815602650
James F. Kenney, The Sources for the Early History of Ireland: Ecclesiastical: An Introduction and Guide, Reprint edition, 1993, International Specialized Book Service; ISBN 1851821155
Mary Low, Celtic Christianity and Nature: Early Irish and Hebridean Traditions, 1997, Edinburgh University Press; ISBN 0748607722
James P. Mackey, editor, Introduction to Celtic Christianity, 1993, Clark, T. & T.; ISBN 0567295079
Thomas O'Loughlin, Celtic Theology: Humanity, World and God in Early Irish Writings, 2000, Continuum; ISBN 0826448712
Richard Sharpe, Adomnan of Iona: Life of Columba 1995, Penguin USA (Paper); ISBN 0140444629
John Skinner, translator, The Confession of Saint Patrick: And, Letter to Coroticus by Saint Patrick, 1998, Doubleday; ISBN 0385491638
Marina Smyth, Understanding the Universe in Seventh-Century Ireland, 1996, Boydell Press, ISBN 0851153135
Indo-European Heritage
Robert S.P. Beekes, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction, 1995, John Benjamin's Publishing Co., ISBN 1556195052
Wouter W. BelierDecayed Gods: Origin and Development of Georges Dumezil's 'Ideologie Tripartie' (Studies in Greek and Roman Religion, Vol 7), 1997, Brill Academic Publishers; ISBN: 9004094873
Richard Braxton, Onians, Origins of European Thought: About the Body, the Mind, the Soul, the World, Time and Fate, 1988 (reprint of 1951 ed.), ISBN 0521347947
Carl Darling Buck, A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principle Indo-European Languages, 1988, University of Chicago Press; ISBN 0226079376
Ken Dowden, European Paganism: The Realities of Cult from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, 2000, Routledge, ISBN 0415120349
Wendy, Doniger O'Flaherty, Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts, 1982, University of Chicago Press; ISBN 0226618501
Jaan Puhvel, Comparative Mythology, 1989, The Johns Hopkins University Press; ISBN 0801839386
Pearson, Roger, editor, Perspectives on Indo-European Language, Culture and Religion: Studies in Honor of Edgar C. Polome, Institute for the Study of Man, 1991, ISBN 0941694372
Anthropological Dimensions of Ritual and Mythology
Catherine M. Bell, Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensions, 1997, Oxford University Press; ISBN 0195110528
Catherine Bell, Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice, 1995, Oxford University Press (Sd); ISBN 0195076133
Kirk
Claude Levi-Strauss, Wendy Doniger, Myth and Meaning, 1995, Schocken Books; ISBN 0805210385
Claude Levi-Strauss, The Raw and the Cooked: Introduction to a Science of Mythology, 1983, University of Chicago Press; ISBN 0226474879
Bruce Lincoln, Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship, University of Chicago Press, 2000, ISBN 0226482022
Jeremy Narby and Francis Huxley, editors, Shamans Through Time: 500 Years on the Path to Knowledge, 2001, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, ISBN 1585420913
Victor Turner, From Ritual to Theatre: The Human Seriousness of Play, 1982, PAJ Publications, ISBN 0933826176
Victor Turner, The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure (Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures), 1995, Aldine De Gruyter; ISBN 0202011909
Celtic Cultural Revival
Amy Hale (Editor), Philip Payton (Editor), New Directions in Celtic Studies, 2001, University of Exeter Press; ISBN 0859895874
Sharon McDonald, Reimagining Culture: Histories, Identities and the Gaelic Renaissance, 1997, New York University Press; ISBN 1859739857
Celtic Diaspora
Margaret Bennett, Last Stronghold: Scottish Gaelic Traditions in Newfoundland, 1989, Breakwater Books, 0920911382
Margaret Bennett, Oatmeal and the Catechism, 1998, John Donald Publishers, 0859764613
Marjory Harper and Michael Vance, editors, Myth, Migration and the Making of Memory: Scotia and Nova Scotia c. 1700-1990, John Donald Publishers, 0859765210
James Hunter, A Dance Called America: The Scottish Highlands, the United States and Canada, 1994, Mainstream Publishing, 1-85158-639-3
James Hunter, Glencoe and the Indians, 1996, Mainstream Publishing, 1-85158-829-9
James Hunter, Scottish Highlanders, Indian Peoples: Thirty Generations of a Montana Family, 1997, Montana Historical Society, 0917298527
Joe Neil MacNeil, John W. Shaw, editor, Tales until Dawn: The World of a Cape Breton Gaelic Story-Teller (English only), 1987, McGill-Queens University Press; ISBN 0773505601; Gaelic and English edition (hardcover), 1987; McGill-Queens University Press; ISBN 0773505598